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> Siemens, Bosch, BMW, Porsche Let's see. Siemens USA: CEO Barbara Humpton, not German. Bosch USA: Mike Mansuetti, not German. BMW USA: President Bernhard K

> Siemens, Bosch, BMW, Porsche Let's see. Siemens USA: CEO Barbara Humpton, not German. Bosch USA: Mike Mansuetti, not German. BMW USA: President Bernhard Kuhnt (sounds German), but top leadership team includes lots of Non-Germans: Shaun Bugbee, Lisa Errion Saums, Adam Sykes, Howard S. Harris, Adam McNeill, Michael Peyton, Trudy Hardy Porsche USA: CEO Kjell Gruner (German), but top leadership includes mostly names that are not German: Joe Lawrence, Thierry Kartochian, George Feygin, Angus Fitton, Glenn Garde, Pedro Mota, Scott Codute, Trevor Arthur, John Cappella. I guess you either don't know or you do know but spread misinformation on purpose.

orange_tee 6y ago
He was talking about places in Germany.
wil421 6y ago
Siemens CEO: Joe Kaeser Bosch CEO: Volkmar Denner BMW CEO: Harald Krueger Porsche CEO: Oliver Blume All German. I always thought of the CEOs of foreign branches were usually more "marketing" CEOs than actual run the core business CEOs. They are the face for the regional dealers and suppliers to meet in the respective regions.
- luckylion 6y ago
  Right, but that's not the point of either the article nor the comment that ChuckNorris89 replied to, the article is about a Chinese company in Europe/Germany, and the comment was about US companies in Europe. The only equivalent then is German companies in the US. It's expected to have leadership in the domestic branch of any large corporation to be mostly from that country: few Americans emigrate to Germany for work, expecting the ~100k US-citizens in Germany to contain the CEOs of major companies among ~80m people (mostly German) seems ridiculous just looking at statistics.
luckylion 6y ago
The easiest way to harvest downvotes: expose a comforting lie people want to believe. God, HN really has become reddit.
Geminidog 6y ago
Yeah all white. No Asians.

orange_tee 6y ago

He was talking about places in Germany.

wil421 6y ago

Siemens CEO: Joe Kaeser Bosch CEO: Volkmar Denner BMW CEO: Harald Krueger Porsche CEO: Oliver Blume All German. I always thought of the CEOs of foreign branches were usually more "marketing" CEOs than actual run the core business CEOs. They are the face for the regional dealers and suppliers to meet in the respective regions.

luckylion 6y ago
Right, but that's not the point of either the article nor the comment that ChuckNorris89 replied to, the article is about a Chinese company in Europe/Germany, and the comment was about US companies in Europe. The only equivalent then is German companies in the US. It's expected to have leadership in the domestic branch of any large corporation to be mostly from that country: few Americans emigrate to Germany for work, expecting the ~100k US-citizens in Germany to contain the CEOs of major companies among ~80m people (mostly German) seems ridiculous just looking at statistics.

luckylion 6y ago

The easiest way to harvest downvotes: expose a comforting lie people want to believe. God, HN really has become reddit.

Geminidog 6y ago

Yeah all white. No Asians.